Who was responsible for the first-known combat between gladiators in Rome, and why did the custom grow?

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Who was responsible for the first-known combat between gladiators in Rome, and why did the custom grow?

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Keaton Gilbert · Answer 1

Gladiator history with the first recorded gladiatorial fight which was staged in 264AD. Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva put on a gladiatorial combat to honor the memory of his dead father who was a consul named D. Junius Brutus Pera.